“Instead, his daughter Danielle is coming,” Busch said by phone. The event will be at O’Keefe’s on Washington Avenue.

Her opponent, Assemblyman Jack McEneny, is having his own event next Thursday (10/21) at the Albany Hibernian Center on Ontario Street.

“I thought I’d do an art piece for the invitation,” McEneny said, slyly grinning, showing me the image (right) of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. The text pokes fun at some of Busch’s supporters, declaring “The Capitol is no place for a Tea Party.”